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When foreign dignitaries meet with representatives of the United States at the United Nations general assembly in New York this month, there's a good chance they'll be talking to a Delawarean.

Two of the four representatives President Barack Obama announced Tuesday come from the state — U.S. Sen. Chris Coons and Valerie Biden Owens, Vice President Joe Biden's sister and a political consultant.

Coons, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, will serve as an official representative. Owens was picked as an alternate representative.

Representatives do not cast votes, but they observe the U.N.'s sessions and represent the U.S. in meetings.

"It's a chance for a bipartisan group to sit down with heads of state or ministers of dozens of foreign countries," Coons said. "It is really an amazing opportunity."

Valerie Biden Owens(Photo: PROVIDED)

U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, a Republican and fellow Foreign Relations committee member, will join Coons as a representative.

Coons says he will ping-pong between Congressional hearings and meetings in Washington, D.C., and the U.N. sessions in New York.

"I'm going to be very busy," he said.

Owens was a fellow at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and is executive vice president of Joe Slade White and Company, a political consulting firm. Her fellow alternate delegate is Cynthia Ryan, director of the Schooner Africa Fund, a non-profit human rights organization.

The assembly is the primary decision-making body of the U.N.

On this session's agenda, the U.N. is set to discuss the immigration issues and the refugee crisis that is swamping European countries. It will also try to tackle global climate change and the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.